I am using Hangfire to trigger a database retrieval operation as a background job.
This operation is only supposed to happen once, and can be triggered in multiple ways. (for example, in the UI whenever a user drags and drops a tool, I need to fire that job in the background. But if another tool is dragged and dropped, I don’t want to fire the background job as it’s already prefetched from the database).
This is what my code looks like now:
var jobId = BackgroundJob.Enqueue<BackgroundModelHelper>( (x) => x.PreFetchBillingByTimePeriods(organizationId) );
What I want is some kind of check before I execute above statement, to find if a background job has already been fired; if yes, then do not fire another and if not, then enqueue this .
for example:
bool prefetchIsFired = false;
// find out if a background job has already been fired. If yes, set prefetchIsFired to true.
if (!prefetchIsFired)
var jobId = BackgroundJob.Enqueue<BackgroundModelHelper>( (x) => x.PreFetchBillingByTimePeriods(organizationId, null) );